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Posted on 12/31/2017 5:05:52 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska
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What’s it like being a libertarian and a secular humanist in the middle of a nominally Christian society (2018 is traditionally “year of our Lord”) whose announced believers so often fail to look more like Jesus than Conan the Barbarian?
I’m inescapably Christian by spirituality and yet my lack of normalcy forces an unusual perspective on it. I didn’t ride culture into the faith. I never understood culture very well at all. Now I’m there I understand, I think, why Jesus cried so sorrowfully at Lazarus’ tomb. Even though Lazarus was about to be saved from rot as well as death. Because here in miniature was a picture of where humanity was.
Dark music reflects dark spirits.
I dropped it completely after 1992 and went back to my first love — classical music.
I still love the older rock. Also enjoy classical, as well as Andy, Perry, Frank and the others.
Music is my “drug” and the cool thing is it’s legal. LOL! There’s some that’s a great pick-me-up and some that’s relaxing. Throw on some head-bangin’ music or some techno and the house is clean in a snap. Throw on something like Moody Blues and I’m jello. :-)
It’s my understanding that country music took a similar nihilistic plunge. It’s a challenge to me, who has tried to embrace and even create more of the upside. Any real revolution is going to need to be a work of God. And yet people aren’t puppets sans will. God, I am convinced, populates various ages with various kinds of souls, which will produce various results. I think you look like a soul bent on embracing what sanity you can find in the midst of the madness of many other souls.
Ben Franklin was a deist and yet is recorded as having produced the logical suggestion that the hopeful authors of the Constitution pray. Which they did, and soon the remarkable but still flawed document got off the ground.
I don’t think we can hope to carry it — or the government it prescribes — on sanely with any less earnest prayer. At least Donald Trump is getting this.
Good tune!
But my first love has always been classical -- Beethoven, Schubert, Mahler and the others. Back around 7 years ago, I did a retrospective of the music of Rachmaninoff, Chopin and Brahms at the Canteen.
By the way, you and Ms. B both have a weakness for the Moody Blues. Graeme Edge's poetry causes Ms. B to get faint.
He went out again...I’m thinking he was really desperate to go potty outside...but he’s in now and glad of it.
Hope y’all have a very Happy New Year! It’s getting late, especially since I got up this morning at 7:30. That was HARD! LOL!
See ya tomorrow! :)
Excellent job and much appreciated. Thank you. ((HUGS))
Your music preferences are from a saner time in a number of ways.
The nice thing I’ve noticed on You Tube is that there are quite a few respectable “micropublishers” of music in a classical bent. Modern technology greatly eases what was a laborious effort for Beethoven et al. Though Beethoven himself expressed contempt for the “keyboard cowboy.” All I can do is grin back at Ludwig and say yeehaw, what one age says never to becomes the habit of the next. Also with MIDI has come “impossible toccatas.” See the score. Wish you had more fingers.
My last classical effort at the Canteen was just this past year (2017). It was a survey of Beethoven’s chamber music.
Maybe an index of these indexes of opuses would be helpful for posterity both near and far.
I am so impressed what these composers did with plain pen and paper.
Thanks, unique, for the countdown to the new year.
HAPPY NEW YEAR, ALL! Sounding like the Second Battle of the Marne on the lake here, which means all is well. God Bless all here!
Oh yeah! California too.
Another year of secular liberals being secular liberals, probably. Unless gospel hits California again.
Happy New Year, everyone!
I don’t do that every year but have done it from time to time. The Moody’s albums span quite a bit of time and that’s a lot of changes in our lives to reflect on, isn’t it? One thing that hasn’t changed is the excellence of their music. Graeme’s poetry causes Ms. B to get faint and listening to Justin Hayward’s voice causes me to get faint. LOL!
My favorite classical composer has always been Mozart, though I enjoy all the others too. Hubby freaks out when I have classical playing because he knows my other musical tastes. He just doesn’t understand how one can go from one to the other I reckon. :-)
It’s now official everywhere in USA except Alaska and Hawaii.
And here I am, the impossibly spiritually minded HiTech RedNeck.
I miss Quix. Though each succeeding effort hopefully refines from the last.
The 2018th year of our Lord, but only the Lord of believers. The other lord has more zeroes in his year.
Whew! Glad he’s back inside! Hard to imagine wanting to potty outside that badly with it being so cold. LOL
We’re about to drop into single digits - it’s 10 degrees at the moment.
I hope y’all have a Happy New Year as well!
Sleep well and I’ll see ya tomorrow.
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